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SECTION FIVE
SAVING YOUR WORK

5.1:  INTRODUCTION

Now that you've spent time setting the screen and keyboard voices just the
way you like them, it may be time to end your PC work session for the day.
Does this mean that tomorrow, or the next time you turn on your PC, you're
going to have to repeat the process of setting the voices?  Not at all.  Not
if you take the time to save your settings in a special, .SET file.

In this section of your Vocal-Eyes users' guide we'll explain just what a
.SET file is.  We'll show you how you can create one, or several, one for
each different applications program you work with.  Later in this manual
we'll show you how to load up to 9 .SET files automatically when you first
start up Vocal-Eyes, or when you reinvoke the program from the DOS command
line or via a batch file or even from the Voice Control Panel.  For now,
though, we'll keep things simple and show you just enough to get you going.

5.2:  THE .SET FILE

The .SET file is a special file which contains all of the voice settings
you've made so far working with Vocal-Eyes' Voice Control Panel along with
all the others you'll learn about as you progress through this manual.  You
can create as many .SET files as you like with Vocal-Eyes.  Indeed, you will
probably want to create a different one for each and every applications
program you use.  Here is how easy it is.

5.3:  THE FILES MENU

Have you made some changes to your screen and/or keyboard voice?  If so, then
you'll certainly want to save those changes so they'll be available to you
the next time you start up Vocal-Eyes.  Do this.

Use the CTRL-\ key to call up Vocal-Eyes' Voice Control Panel.  Move to
option 6 - Files and press ENTER.  Cursor your way through the various
options in the Files submenu.  You'll discover that there are only four:  1:
Load SET, 2: Save SET, 3: Load Key Label and 4: Load Character Dic.

When you use the Save SET option, Vocal-Eyes creates a .SET file that
contains all of your current voice settings and writes this file to disk.
Now, the next time you work with Vocal-Eyes, all you have to do is load this
file back into Vocal-Eyes and all of your voice settings will be restored
exactly like you like them.

Undoubtedly, you've already made some changes to the way Vocal-Eyes voices.
Let's save them in a .SET file.

Select the 2: Save SET option and press ENTER.  Vocal-Eyes will prompt you
for the name of the file you want to create.  You can use any legal DOS file
name for your .SET file.  Vocal-Eyes will automatically supply a .SET
extension to your file name unless you specify otherwise.  If you don't want
any extension at all, simply end your file name with a period.  It's probably
a good idea to use the .SET extension, though, to make it easier to organize
what will eventually become a veritable library of .SET files.  Also, hard
drive users--you'll probably want to keep your .SET files together in a
single subdirectory, perhaps the SPEECH subdirectory right alongside your
Vocal-Eyes program files.  Floppy drive users--you'll want to insert your
Vocal-Eyes diskette at this point.

Now, type in your desired .SET file name.  Make it something that will remind
you of the applications program you've created it for.  How about using the
same name as the applications program.  For example, WP.SET would be a good
choice for WordPerfect since WP.EXE is the name of the applications program.
The reason you may want to use the same file name as the application's file
name will become clear when we discuss the powerful feature of autoloading.
You do not need to specify the .SET extension since Vocal-Eyes assumes this.
For example, you could simply supply the name "WP" and Vocal-Eyes would
convert the file name to "WP.SET".

Now press ENTER.  Vocal-Eyes will say "SET File saved."  Vocal-Eyes saved the
.SET file to disk, but where on your disk?  Vocal-Eyes makes a few
assumptions whenever you save or load a .SET file.

Remember when you startup Vocal-Eyes the first time each session, you were
asked to be in the same directory first because Vocal-Eyes remembers this
location for later use.  For example, it uses this location to look for the
file VE.HLP which contains the help screens.  It may also use this location
when you save or load a .SET file.

If you simply type the file name with no drive or path specification,
Vocal-Eyes will look to see if you have a RAM location setup with the exact
same file name.  RAM locations will be described later.  If it was found in
a RAM location, it will be saved or loaded from there.  If not found in a RAM
location, Vocal-Eyes will load or save the .SET file in the Vocal-Eyes
directory.  If you issued a load and the file was not found in a RAM location
or the Vocal-Eyes directory, Vocal-Eyes will look in your current active
drive and directory for the file.  If found it will be loaded.  If not found,
you will get a disk error indicating Vocal-Eyes could not find the specified
file name to load.

If when you save or load a file you include a drive and/or path
specification, Vocal-Eyes will save or load it directly to the location
specified.  Only if the path is not specified will Vocal-Eyes go through the
RAM locations than the default Vocal-Eyes directory and finally the current
active directory.

If you issue a load or save, Vocal-Eye will display the current file name as
the default if one exists.  If this default contains a path, you can be
assured it was loaded from disk.  If however, it does not contain a path, you
can be assured it was loaded from a RAM location.  For example, a file name
of "123.SET" would indicate it was loaded from RAM while a file name of
"C:\SPEECH\123.SET" would indicate it was loaded from disk.

We will cover the steps Vocal-Eyes goes through during a load or save in
detail, when we discuss RAM locations later in this manual.

The next time you run Vocal-Eyes, simply use the CTRL-\ key to call up the
Voice Control Panel, select option 6 on the main menu and then option 1: Load
SET.  Vocal-Eyes will prompt you for the name of the file to load into
memory.  Type the name of your .SET file and then press ENTER.  Voila!
Vocal-Eyes is now talking your language!

Have you changed applications software?  Why not take a moment to change .SET
files.  A custom speech environment for each and every program you run--now
that's flexibility!

As you can see, you don't have to exit to the DOS prompt to load a new voice
configuration.  Remember we stated earlier that the Voice Control Panel would
wait until DOS was not busy before popping up.  Well, this is one reason why.
This way, if the Voice Control Panel is popped up, you can be assured, there
will be no conflict with DOS.  If you pop up the Voice Control Panel from
Review Mode, DOS may never be ready so the menus pop up automatically even if
DOS is busy.  However, if you try and load or save a .SET file, you may get
the error message "Unable to access disk, DOS is busy."  Simply exit the
Voice Control Panel, exit Review Mode then pop the Voice Control Panel back
up again.  This time, DOS will be ready for you.  Normally you will not have
a conflict since Vocal-Eyes checks things out first.  However, isn't it
better to get Vocal-Eyes' error message then try and access DOS when it is
busy and locking up your machine?

Those of you wanting to create macros, also may have problems with DOS being
busy.  There are ways around this problem.  Refer to section 16 for a
complete discussion of macros.

5.4:  LOADING .SET FILES THROUGH THE COMMAND LINE

We just showed you how to load in a new .SET file by using the Voice Control
Panel's Files option.  There is another way to do this, however, one which
will allow you to have your favorite .SET file already loaded and running
when you first start up Vocal-Eyes.  Here's how it works:

From DOS, use the CD, change directory command to log onto your SPEECH
subdirectory, or whichever subdirectory contains your Vocal-Eyes program
files.  Type VE, but instead of pressing ENTER like you did the first time
you ran Vocal-Eyes, skip one space and then type:  /F1

We'll explain more about this /F1 parameter in SECTION 12 of this manual.
For now, without skipping any spaces, simply type in the name of the .SET
file you would like loaded.  Let's say you'd like your DOS.SET file loaded
and running when Vocal-Eyes first starts up.  In this example you would type
the following from the DOS prompt:

VE /F1DOS

Notice that we did not include the .SET extension to our file name.  Unless
instructed otherwise, Vocal-Eyes automatically assumes a .SET file extension.
If, instead, your .SET file is located in a subdirectory called C:\SPEECH\SET
and has a file extension of .TLK, then your DOS command would look like this:

VE /F1C:\SPEECH\SET\DOS.TLK

You can see why we encouraged you to store all your .SET files in the same
directory as your Vocal-Eyes program files and with the .SET file extension.

You can use the DOS command line to reinvoke Vocal-Eyes with a new .SET file
as often and as many times as you like.  Simply type in the VE program
command along with the /F1 and new .SET file name.  If you're familiar with
.BAT batch files, you probably already see the advantage to loading .SET
files directly from the DOS prompt.  Do you have a batch file called WP.BAT
to run Word Perfect and another called DBXL to run DBXL?  Why not add a line
to each reinvoking Vocal-Eyes with the desired .SET file?

Later in the manual, we will talk about the very powerful autoloading feature
of Vocal-Eyes.  With this feature, Vocal-Eyes will automatically load your
.SET files.  No batch files required.

5.5:  WHERE VOCAL-EYES LOOKS FOR YOUR .SET FILES

When you specify a file name either on the command line after the /F1
parameter or at the File Name prompt from the Voice Control Panel, you can
always specify the exact path of where the .SET file is located.  If you do,
that is the only place Vocal-Eyes will look for the file.  If it is not
located where you specifically asked, you will get an error message.

Vocal-Eyes is a very smart program.  When you first started Vocal-Eyes, it
noted the current drive and directory you were in.  Then when you load a .SET
file and don't specify a specific path, Vocal-Eyes will first look in the RAM
locations for the exact same .SET name.  If there, it will be saved there.
If not in a RAM location, Vocal-Eyes will look in the drive and directory
Vocal-Eyes was started from.  If the .SET file is located there, it will be
loaded.  If however, the .SET file was not located in your startup location,
Vocal-Eyes looks in the drive and directory you are currently logged onto.
If it is there, it will be loaded.  If it is not there, you will get an error
message and the file will not be loaded.  Maybe an example will clear this
up.

Lets say you have all files relating to Vocal-Eyes including all .SET files
in a directory called SPEECH on your C: drive.  Now to startup Vocal-Eyes,
you may type the following commands:

C:             ;This will log onto drive C:
CD\SPEECH      ;This will log onto the directory SPEECH
ECHOPC /!C1    ;This will load the Echo PC driver using COM1
VE             ;This will startup Vocal-Eyes

Lets say you moved to the root directory of C: by typing:

CD\

Now if you want to load WP.SET, you could use either the Voice Control Panel
or the VE command line.  Each procedure will be covered below:

First from the Voice Control Panel.

Pop up the Panel by pressing CTRL-\.  Select the Files option and then the
Load option.  At the file name prompt, you could type either 'SPEECH\WP' or
'C:\SPEECH\WP' .  Either of these examples would load the correct .SET file
because you specified the exact location.  However, you should not have to go
to all that work.  After all, Vocal-Eyes remembered where it was loaded from.
Therefore, at the File Name prompt, why not simply specify 'WP'?  Vocal-Eyes
will first look in the drive and directory where Vocal-Eyes was started.
This would be C:\SPEECH\WP and of course there it would find and load the
information.

This can all be done at the command line as well.  You could specify:

\SPEECH\VE /F1\SPEECH\WP

or

\SPEECH\VE /F1C:\SPEECH\WP

Again, since you specified the exact path, there would be no problem.  But
remember, we want to type as little as possible.  Why not type:

\SPEECH\VE /F1WP

This would eventually find the WP.SET file in the SPEECH directory for you
automatically.  Notice you still had to start the command with '\SPEECH\VE'.
This is because, VE.COM is located in the SPEECH directory and you had to
tell DOS.  However, if you have a path pointing to the SPEECH directory, you
would not have to specify the '\SPEECH\' part.  For example:

PATH=C:\SPEECH      This will set a DOS path to C:\SPEECH

Now regardless of what drive you are logged onto or which directory you are
in, you can always type:

VE /F1WP

at the DOS command line or simply specify:

WP

at the Load File prompt from the Voice Control Panel.

Vocal-Eyes will automatically find the specified information.

Saving a .SET file is very similar to loading one.  The only way to save a
.SET file however, is from the Save option from the Voice Control Panel.  If
you do not specify the exact location, Vocal-Eyes will look for a RAM
location with the same name and if found, save the file there.  If no RAM
location with the same name was found, Vocal-Eyes will save the .SET file in
the drive and directory you started Vocal-Eyes up in.

If you save a .SET file with the name '123', Vocal-Eyes will save, assuming
no RAM location with the name '123.SET' was found, in the directory
Vocal-Eyes was loaded from.  Now, if you issue another load or save, you will
notice the default file name contains the entire drive and directory of where
the file is to be saved or loaded.  For example, the default file name would
be 'C:\SPEECH\123.SET' if you started up Vocal-Eyes on the C: drive in the
SPEECH directory.

5.6:  VOCAL-EYES' DEFAULT .SET FILE

The very first time you load Vocal-Eyes and you do not specify a .SET file to
load via the /F1 parameter, Vocal-Eyes will automatically look for a default
.SET file.  The default file is called:

VE.SET

If this file is found in the current drive and directory, Vocal-Eyes will
load the file just as if you had specified:

VE /F1VE

Therefore, if you wish Vocal-Eyes to load your default settings automatically
each time it started up the very first time, name the .SET file 'VE.SET'.

Note:  As stated, this will only load the file the first time Vocal-Eyes is
loaded.  After that, Vocal-Eyes will only load .SET files when you
specifically ask for them either using the /F1 command line parameter or the
Voice Control Panel or through the autoloading feature.

5.7:  A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF AUTOLOADING

The formal definition of autoloading will be suspended until later in this
manual.  However, this section will give you a basic feel for what this
feature can do for you.  By default, whenever you execute a program,
Vocal-Eyes will automatically load the .SET file in the default drive and
directory Vocal-Eyes was started from with the same name as the application
program.  For example, if you execute WordPerfect by typing 'WP' at the DOS
prompt, Vocal-Eyes will automatically load WP.SET from the Vocal-Eyes
directory.  When you exit  WordPerfect, Vocal-Eyes will reload the same .SET
file you had loaded prior to starting up WordPerfect.  Also, when you shell
to DOS from within WordPerfect, Vocal-Eyes will sense this and automatically
load DOS.SET.  When you exit the shell, Vocal-Eye will reload the .SET file
prior to shelling to DOS, in our example, this would be WP.SET.

You should keep this procedure in mind.  For example, if you are sitting at
the DOS command line and manually load a .SET file and then execute a
program, Vocal-Eyes will load the .SET file with the same name as the
application program if such a .SET file exists.  This means, the .SET file
you loaded manually will no longer be loaded.  Once you are fully aware of
this feature, you will wonder how you every got along without it.  However,
until you understand exactly how Vocal-Eyes is handling the load and
reloading of .SET files, it may seem a bit confusing.  It is possible to
disable this feature if you prefer using batch files.

Once we cover RAM locations and character and key label dictionaries, we will
fully describe this powerful feature.

5.8:  SUMMARY

There's a lot more to .SET files than we've covered in this section of your
Vocal-Eyes users' guide.   Later, we'll show you how you can load up to nine
.SET files into Vocal-Eyes' memory at one time for near instant speech
environment changes.  We will also fully describe the autoloading feature.
What we've outlined in this section are the basics to .SET file saving and
loading.  Practice what we've shown you, and then get ready to explore the
real power of Vocal-Eyes!